PLANS to reduce compensation paid to those wrongly convicted of crimes were set to be announced today.

PLANS to reduce compensation paid to those wrongly convicted of crimes were set to be announced today.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke was outlining the new measures to address concerns that victims of miscarriages of justice sometimes receive more compensation than victims of crime.

The plans are also understood to introduce a limit on individual payments, with less going to those with previous criminal convictions.

A Home Office spokeswoman said: "The Home Secretary will today outline a package of measures aimed at creating a fairer, simpler and speedier system for compensating miscarriages of justice.

"The measures will ensure that compensation paid by the state following a miscarriage of justice is more proportionate to the level of injustice experienced and more in line with compensation payments made to victims of crime."

It was reported that those who won their appeals at the first attempt would not get any compensation.